The journal of Latrobe : being the notes and sketches of an architect, naturalist and traveler in the United States from 1796 to 1820 (1905)
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 163
PHILADELPHIA it will not be easily believed that want of ventilation can be entirely the cause of the yellow fever which has made such dreadful and frequent devastations among the inhabitants. It is true that there are narrow and … often very filthy alleys which intersect the interior of the squares bounded by the principal streets and in which the air may stagnate. The back yards of most of the houses are also depositories of filth to a degree which is surprising, if the general cleanly character of 93
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